History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 543.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

ED. C. LONG, farmer and horse dealer; P. O. North Middletown, son of James
C. and Elizabeth (Seamands) Long, and was born Oct. 7, 1861.  His father
was a Virginian by birth, and came to Kentucky when quite young with his
parents, and settled near Danville, Boyle County, where he remained till
[sic] he was eighteen years of age; he was educated at Center College,
Danville, and was a classmate of Gen. John C. Breckinridge.  Shortly after
Mr. Long finished his education, we find him in Baltimore, engaged as
salesman in the mercantile business with his cousin, Ellis B. Long, who
was at that time one of the most prominent and successful merchants of
that city.  After he had become thoroughly conversant with that branch of
business upon which he had embarked, and being full of ambition, we next
find him in the great city of New York, as junior partner with Lee, Case
& Co., merchants of that city.  James C. was married on the 16th of May,
1859, to Elizabeth A., widow of John W. Kerr, of Bourbon County, Ky.; the
result of this marriage was four children, three daughters, viz: Mary
Bell, who died in infancy; Fannie L., who died at the age of eleven years,
and Bessie A., born Sept. 2, 1870, and is now a student at the K.C. and B.
College at North Middletown, and one son, Ed.C., who is the subject of
this sketch.  Our subject was born at his grandfather Seamond's, in
Bourbon County, Ky., and at the age of two years was taken by his parents
to New York City, where he remained about ten years, and then returned
to Kentucky, accompanied by his half-brother, William H. Kerr, with whom
he has since associated himself as partner, the style of the firm now being
William H. Kerr & Bro., horse dealers.  For a more extended notice of this
firm, see biography of William H. Kerr in this work.  Our subject Ed. C.,
who is yet quite young, being only twenty years of age, has been a student
of the K.C. & B. College for a year, after which, through the influence of
Prof. L. M. Sniff, ex-Professor of the above school, he was induced to
enter Northwestern Ohio Normal School, in which institution Prof. Sniff is
very prominently connected, and Ed. C. at this time one of his favorite
pupils.  Being a young man of more than ordinary intelligence, excellent
moral character, of indomitable energy and the important of business
indelibly stamped in him, from his earliest recollections up to the present
time, we can but predict for him a bright and successful future.

Long Seamands Breckinridge Kerr
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Danville-Boyle-KY NY OH

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